Assisting participants to develop a ‘co-creative writing practice’ inspired by the natural world and our ‘wild self’. Helen offers guidelines and themed assignments to inspire your outdoor writing adventures, followed by online feedback. Our journey is an opportunity to enhance authentic self-expression, and nourish resilience & wellbeing in the face of collective planetary crises.

This programme is tailored for all levels of creative writing skill and experience, poetry or prose.

About Helen Moore

Helen Moore is a British ecopoet, socially engaged artist, writer, Nature educator and facilitator of outdoor wellbeing programmes. She has published three ecopoetry collections, Hedge Fund, And Other Living Margins (Shearsman Books, 2012), ECOZOA (Permanent Publications, 2015), acclaimed by the Australian poet John Kinsella as ‘a milestone in the journey of ecopoetics’, and The Mother Country (Awen Publications, 2019) exploring aspects of British colonial history. Through her online mentoring programme, Wild Ways to Writing, Helen works with students across the UK and internationally. In 2020 her work was nominated for the Forward and Pushcart Prizes and received grants from the Royal Literary Fund and Arts Council England. In 2021 Helen gave a keynote lecture on ecopoetry and landscape at PoesiaEuropa in Italy; and she collaborated with Cape Farewell in Dorset on RiverRun, an ecopoetry project drawing on fieldwork and research from scientists and farmers in Dorset to examine pollution in Poole Bay and its river-systems. 

Price

£25 for initial 1:1 online meeting, £45 for 1st taster assignment, £480 advance discount 12 assignment sign-up, or pay for each at the full rate of £45.

For more details, please visit www.helenmoorepoet.com/wild-ways-to-writing 

Please note: the end date given above is purely notional to allow listing to be added. You can work at your own pace for however long you like.